Author's note: yes, I know I have probably made a million mistakes with this. but I am trying u_u
"I can see every monster as they come in."
— Truman Capote
Alek traded carefully through the rubble and debri of the crumbling underwater city of Rapture. It had been nearly half an hour since they had descended into the city. They had found practically nothing in the crumbling ruins except the sickening amount of corpses. Alek pondered on how such a magnificent city fell, with such amazing mechanics and structure. What could have possibly happened?
the group paused their search briefly to regain some morale, the men, feeling skiddish and nervous among the ominous city. Alek took the moment to carefully review his surroundings. The scenery around him looked as though it had been through a small riot.
Alek's thoughts were interrupted by somewhat distant metal screeches. He spun to the direction of the noise. "What was tha-" he was cut off by Volger putting putting his hand up to signal silence. The noise kept getting louder, with it was an inaudible chattering. Volger reached for the sword he kept at his side, a few of the other men ready to draw hand guns.
The noise halted, silence flooded the air around them. Alek saw a flash of steel, and as soon as he saw it, one of the men was on the floor, blood flowing from his neck. A humanoid figure was crouched over the dying man. It spoke "Shh, shh, it's all over now."
A shot rang out. One of the men had pulled his gun and shot at the thing. The shot echoed loudly. The thing stumbled back before throwing itself at the shooter. The group reacted quickly to help him. More shots rang out and the creature fell to the ground like a bag of rocks, the man with the gun fell back holding his face, the creature had done quite a number on him.
Two different officers rushed to give the wounded man medical attention. Alek and a few others went to the dead 'creature' that had attacked them. "What is it?" Alek had asked, "It looks like a man." Deryn answered in a questioning tone. It was wearing a birds mask. Alek reached out and removed it. With a shocked gasp and horrified expression, he dropped it and practically lept back from the monster. "God's wounds. What in the name of anything holy IS this, this, THING?" he looked to Deryn and to a couple of the other men, expecting some kind of response form the darwinists, but they were as shocked as he was. Alek looked back to the creature taking in it's disgusting, distorted, and mutated face.
Everyone fell silent again as more noises came again. "We have to keep going, there might be more." Alastair commanded. The men gathered themselves, two of them helping the injured solder to his feet. They all made their way forward again as quickly as possible, the noises fading behind them.
They had been traveling for hours. The previously injured man was showing signs of infection. They had run into quite a few more of the mutated humans, males and females, all of them equally as grotesque and hideous. Alek knew they needed to stop, rest, and tend to the injured officer, but Alastair refused them that luxury, we was bent on getting out of Rapture as quickly as possible.
Alek was helping with the injured man now. With every step they took, Alek felt as though the soldier was getting heavier. The man eventually collapsed, vomiting a mixture of bile and blood. Alek stepped back from the man, calling over the others for help. the leader, Alastair, finally agreed to stop and rest.
They made a temporary camp, blocking off the only entrance to the small area. "What do you think our chances of escaping are?" one of the men, Fallmen, asked. "If Alek's hunch about there baing another exit is correct, we may be able to find it and get out of here." Deryn responded. "But it is also a matter of whether or not we can survive anymore of those, those, monstrosities we've encountered, assuming there are more of them." Volger added, he had his back to them, watching the entrance like a hawk watching a mouses burrow. "Well I bloody hope there aren't anymore of those damned things," Fallmen, who was currently tending to the injured officer, snapped, "We've already lost 1 man, and we're about to lose another. It's likely this whole suicide trip was a failure!" Fallmen had raised his voice to a low shout and cause Volger to turn to him and give him a look so acidic it could melt steel, that shut Fallmen right up. Alastair sighed impatiently, "It has become clear to me that this has become an utter failure, but if we wish to get out of this hell hole of a city Mr Fallmen, we must continue forward and strong or we shall all die."